SOVIET RAIL BORDER TRAFFIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008000280005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY mast Germany
SUBJECT
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
REPORT
CD NO.
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DATE DISTR. September 1955
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
TNti DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING TUN NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 11. SECTIONS TSS
AND 754. or TNi U. S. COOS. AS AMOROSO. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT MY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PRONNITIO MY LAW THE REMDd00TIOM OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
IIII& - f 'oar gondola oar ? tank oar
1. Shipments observed between 14 July and 10 August 1955 included:
Date Number of From
Care
July
14 2 B Frankfurt border Toepchin
23 20 B Toepohin Frankfurt/Oder
border
25 14 B Frankfurt/Oder Toepohin
border
30 4 B " It
31 4 B
August
10 3 B IT "
The following shipments were observed between 8 and 13 August:
Date in Shipment From To
Auguat
8 17 T Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
41 B border
56 B with
ore Brest Litovsk Ziltendorf 2
56 B with Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
iron parts border
56 B Brest Litovsk Frankfurt/Oder border
56 B. empty Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
border
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9 46 B with uranium
ore
56 G with ore
56 G, empty
11 56 G with coke
54 B with boxes
52 !/S with iron
parts
56 B
56 B
12 56 G with ore
35 T
56 G with oak*
52 F with boxes
56 G with coke
13 54 B'
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oiler
border
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest Litovsk
>
w
Frankfurt/Odor,
border
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
border
Brest Litovsk
w
Frankfurt/Oder
border
56 G with ore
52 B
56 Cg empty
Zilt endorf 2
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oiler border
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder border
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf 2
Frankfort/Odor border
>
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf 2
Frankfurt/Oder border
Brest Litovsk
3.
Shipments to Brest Litovsk observed on 9 and 11 Aiumst inal ded a
shipment of 1 CB9 50 F and came
from Magdeburg - Brueokteld on t another shipment of 1 CB, 2 B,
7 F and was dispatched from 25X1
Koethen on 11 August.
4. Shipments
included:
Date
Augur
12 1 CB, 47 F 1,000 Neuruppin
15 undetermined 1,000 Wuenedorf
between 10 and 16 August
10 1 CB9 50 F 1,000 Magdeburg Brest Litovsk
night undetermined 1,000 FFankfurt/Odor Satzkorn
of 15 with military border
goods exceeding
the scheduled
load
night 14 F with - Frankfurt/Oiler
of 16 military border
goods
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16 f with ?? Frankfurt/Oder Satzkorn
military goods border
exceeding the
scheduled load
1. I (Comment. The shipments contained ammunition from the USSR from
the shipment on 21 July 1955 contained
ammunition or empty cartridge oases which were returned to the USSR.
2. I Comment. The shipments contained iron ore for the Eisenhuetten
Kombinat Oat in the GDR.
3-
4*
Comment. Number and type of railroad cars and the dispatching
stations indicate that the shipments contained motor vehicles which
belonged to the vehicle exchange movement'and were returned to the
USSR. Although the dates of the shipments from Magdeburg in paragraphs
3 and 4 are different, it (is believed that the two shipments are
identical. The same shipment was previously reported on 10 August 1955-
5.
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Cisment.'The shipment contained uranium ore which was delivered
to the USSR from the Saxony Uranium Yining District.
Comment. The ahi-oment probab
regiment at Kae the
to be36equipped wi
6. Comment. The shipments continue the delivery of new tank types
(T-54) from the USSR. The three shipments are reported for the first
time.
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